Tricornenses

The Tricornenses of Tricornum (modern Ritopek) were a Romanized Thraco-Celtic[1][2] artificially[3] created community by the Romans that replaced the Celtic Celegeri.[4] The inhabitants of Tricornum were Celtic and Thracian, attested by epigraphic sources.[1] After 6 AD, the Tricornenses were one of the four units of Upper Moesia alongside the Dardani, Moesi and Picenses.[5] The ceremonial parade armour found at Ritopek belonged to a Tricornian soldier of Legio VII Claudia, dating to AD 258.[1]

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References
  1. Miroslav Vujovic (14 June 2001). "o paradnom oklopu iz ritopeka § Pohvala vernosti ili carmen Saliare". komunikacija.org.rs. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 10: The Augustan Empire, 43 BC-AD 69 (Volume 10) by Alan Bowman, Edward Champlin, and Andrew Lintott, 1996, p. 580, "...Danubian and Balkan provinces Tricornenses of Tricornium (Ritopek) replaced the Celegeri, the Picensii of Pincum..."
  3. Landscapes of Change: Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Late Antique & Early Medieval Studies) by Neil Christie, 2004, p. 226, "Some were new, artificial creations (Timachi, Tricornenses, Picenses); others have names familiar from the pre-Roman period..."
  4. J. J. Wilkes, The Illyrians, 1992, ISBN 0-631-19807-5, p. 217.
  5. "BALCANICA XXXVII" (PDF). 26 March 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
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